Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
- Subject: Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
- From: Jan-Peter Homann <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:23:36 +0200
Hello list, hello AJ
It is tragic to see how powerful Core image is, and how small Apple´s
understanding of colormanagement is.
Several colormanagement experts have asked Apple for years to implement
functionalities necessary for the professional users in the graphic arts.
If Apple would do this, third party developers would be able to develop
applications, which could interact in terms of color and PDF like the
Adobe CS apps. But it seems, that the graphics arts market is not
interesting anymore to Apple...
Following enhancements to the Apple color architecture would serve the
needs of the professional users:
1) Managing of color policies comparable to Adobe CS
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The Adobe color settings for the creative suite apps are full filling
the needs and expectations for the majority of the graphic arts users.
If Apple would implement this on OS-Level, it would be easy to
synchronize color processing between apps from different vendors.
Please take in consideration, that Adobe has e.g. the standard color
policy "preserveCMYK numbers" which is not possible to implement through
colorsync...
2) Support for DNG on OS level
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DNG is going to be an vendor independent standard for RAW images
maintained by ISO. If Apple would implement on OS level functions for
importing, processing and exporting DNG, it would be a big step for
third party developers to deal with RAW data.
3) Support for PDF/X-1a on OS-Level
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Concerning PDF, Apples color policy uses embedded profiles in every
CMYK-object (image, vector graphics and text objects). If such PDF-files
are send to a printing house it is not clear, if this profiles should be
used, which would lead to a color transformation of all CMYK objects, or
if the printer should ignore this profiles, which breaks the
colormanagement chain.
Compared to this, the Adobe color policy "preserveCMYK numbers" in
combination with a preset for PDF/X-1a export, is much better serving
the print professionals.
4) Support for DeviceLink-profiles in Quartz
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DeviceLink-profiles are an extreme powerful technology to deal with
color in CMYK PDF-files. If they could be used in Quartz-Filters, Apple
computers would be a must for all prepress people.
5) Transparent colormanagement in the printer driver
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Actually, it is quite intransparent, how the secret colormanagement
level on OS-level (e.g. tagging objects with profiles, which can not
specified by the user..) is interacting with colormanagement in the
application, with colormanagement in the apple printing pipeline and
colormanagement in the vendor specific printer driver.
There are a lot of possibilities to make this more transparent and usable.
6) Apple color certification for apps and printer drivers
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Based on this outline, it would be possible to create some test
procedures how applications and printerdrivers should interact with
colormanagement on OS-level.
If Apple - or a company authorized by Apple - would test and certify
apps and printer drivers, the user could identify, which apps and
printerdrivers he can use for easy and transparent handling of color.
My 50p
Jan-Peter
PID Jmail wrote:
One thing in particular that interested me was Martin's comments about
Apple's imaging capabilities within OSX...
The Mac OS had a 2-3 year window where the Core Image APIs could be
used to do the work that Photoshop does in a much faster, more
efficient manner. Developers got Core Image Fun House and we saw a
couple of interesting third party apps - but Apple did *nothing*.
And, as usual, we see more interesting stuff at the WWDC with Steve
Jobs doing 64-bit retouching faster than Photoshop is capable of.
Technologies like Quartz Composer are mind-blowing in their power
and the uniqueness of the interface - why haven't these been
developed as a new Pro retouching app by Apple?
I am wondering if there are any examples of products developed solely around
OSX imaging capabilities? Martin mentions interesting things seen at WWDC,
any more info about these? I am aware of apps like Image Tricks
(belightsoft.com/products/imagetricks/overview.php) and Pixelmator
(pixelmator.com), are there any other examples?
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